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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Capercaillie71" data-source="post: 1621452" data-attributes="member: 32437">That's fair enough, but I'm not claiming that wind turbines can deliver 10% of peak demand.  I believe that the UK uses about 350 million MWhours of electricity a year which equates to an average demand of just under 40GW.  We can split hairs about exact figures but 30% of the consented wind turbine capacity (about 12.7GW) works out at about 9.5% of average demand.So you're right that we need other sources of electricity to deal with peak demand, but that doesn't negate the fact that we would need about 10% less electricity from fossil fuels/nuclear over the course of a year.</blockquote>